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I'm rooting for you too! I've not heard back from most of my schools to be honest so my hope right now is on the waitlist, so I completely understand..... Im just trying to take things in stride with a positive front all while checking my email 100000 times a day lol

I bet that your "Congratulations" email will come this week or next week! Don't give up!! I'm not either so let's hope for the best together

I really hope you get in as well! I saw last year that students were being accepted off waitlists even as late as May, so there's still hope for us all!!

I'm not sure, I haven't heard back from a few schools to be honest but I've been reading that a lot of schools don't inform their candidates that they're on a waitlist, so they wait to hear from the first round of accepted students to see if they accept their offers before contacting the "un-contacted" candidates. I assume that they wait then inform those candidates after if there's space so as to not give them any unnecessary hope just in case it doesn't work out, but I'm not quite sure. But the unofficial waitlist thing seems to be a standard practice among PHD programs I've heard! I guess it's better than having outright received a rejection letter crossing my fingers for you and everyone else!

That's awesome though Once you have even a shred of hope that things are improving that's a really really good sign.... keep us updated as i will too!

So we have a little over two weeks before we'll know for sure, but its quite possible that this is the week that we will get our decisions (acceptances)! Let's tell ourselves that one more week can't kill us after such a long wait... who knows? our lucky day could even be tomorrow morning!

So let's get this thread started back up for those who are currently waitlisted for admissions at their various PHD programs. I've been waitlisted for about a month at one my top choices, and the wait has been excruciating but I'm trying to hold on to hope.... I know that waitlists are complicated at that acceptances depend on a variety of factors, but there's still hope!! I'm excited for to wake up one day (SOON) and see CONGRATULATIONS.... in my inbox haha. Who's still waiting to get off the waitlist for this season?

I've been checking the results page almost every day but I'm thinking I might need to stop because I don't want to get too disappointed if I see acceptances for the schools I applied to while my inbox is empty haha

Is anyone in the same boat as me? I applied to PHD programs with deadlines between early January and early February. I thought I'd get more decisions by now but not the case! Is anyone else going crazy checking their emails and waiting it out?